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LOCAL MILLIONAIRES AREL CALLED BY THE
UNITED STATES COMMISSION
Chauncey Keep, trustee of the
Marshall Field estate and lifelong
friend of Mr. Marshall Field, has
been subpoenaed bythe U. S. indus
trial relations commission as a wit
ness at the hearing to be held in the
Hotel Sherman next week. Keep is
a member of the board of directors of
th Pullman Co. He will be asked
about labor unrest and about high
profits and low wages paid by the
Pullman Co.
Robert T. Lincoln, multi-million
aire son of Abraham Lincoln, civil
war president of the United States,
was served with a subpoena Satur
day at his winter home in Washing
ton, D. C. As chairman of the board
of directors of the Pullman Co. Lin
coln has more to say than anybody
else about the wages, working condi
tions, security of employment and
hopes of decent living among the
6,000 negro porters and 2,000 white
men who are conductors on the Pull
man cars.
A strange, lonely, shadowy figure
cut off absolutely from the mobs
and crowds and common people his
father loved to mix with when
Robert T. Lincoln takes the witness
stand next week he will be a target
of curious eyes. It is years since he
made any public speech. Once in
a while some college of city celebra
tion of the memory of Abraham Lin
poln has been able to get the son to
go out and show himself and say a
few words. But the words have al
ways been polite, perfunctory, after
the style of a corporation lawyer who
delivers an address without saying
anything.
What sort of thoughts there are
on the labor question inside the head
of R. T. Lincoln may become known
from the examination of him on the
stand. It is known, that he doesn't
like the idea of coming to Chicago
and facing a quiz from Chairman
Frank P. Walsh of the industrial
commission. General Solicitor Dan
iels of the Pullman Co. has made in
quiries of members of the commis
sion with a view of finding out wheth
er the appearance of R. T. Lincoln
can't be called off.
R. W. Bell, secretary of the Fed
eration of Pullman Conductors and
Porters, 437 S. Dearborn St., said to
day that their organization has been
going nearly two years now. Some
of the members will testify. Not in
person, however. They won't show
their faces and their names won't be
known. They will be known, like con
victs, by numbers and their testi
mony win be entered in the form of
sworn statements with the names of -the
signers kept in the secret records
of the industrial commission.
The Illinois Central and Harriman
lines strike of shopmen will get atten
tion. C. H. Markham, president of
the I. C; Julius Kruttschnitt, chair
man board of directors Southern Pa
cific, and other officials have been
subpoenaed.
Shopmen tried to get from the Har
riman lines a recognition of their
Federation of Federations, a big
union taking in all of the crafts in
the shops of the lines. Markham and
Kruttschnitt were active in refusal to
recognize the union. They have nev
er had to answer in any public and
responsible way the question:
"What's wrong about workmgmen
who want to organize? Why should
they not have the right to get togeth
er. Why does your railroad dis
charge and blacklist these union
workmen?"
The Western Union and Postal
Telegraph policy of discharging and'
blacklisting all known uniomnen will
be asked investigated, as well as
wages and working conditions in the
stockyards.
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